Harness-buckle



(No Model.

B. J. HARTMAN.

HARNESS BUCKLE.

Patented June 9, 188 5.

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NITED STATES ATENI ,ITFIBE.

BENJAMIN J. HARTMAN, OF \VOOS'IER, OHIO.

HARNESS-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,579, dated June 9, 1885.

Application filed June 23, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. HARTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wooster, in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Harness Buckle, of which the following is a specificalion.

My invention relates to improvements in buckles for harness. Its object is to provide a buckle adapted especially for horse-collars, whereby the collar-straps maybe unbuckled with greater ease than heretofore, and without drawing the ends of the collar toward each other; and, secondly, to provide a buckle with a stiff tongue and a strap-loop attached, all cast in one piece of metal, and adapted to be more readily fastened upon the leather than buckles heretofore used. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of my improved buckle. Fig. 2 is a view of the same attached to the collar,ready to be buckled. Fig. 3 is a view of a horse-collar, showing a side view of my buckle as it appears when the collar is fastened together.

B is the bottom plate of the buckle, which is provided with perforations c 6, through which rivets may be passed to fasten the buckle upon-the leather. A is the tongue, which is cast upon the plate, near one end of the same. D is the strap-loop, which is cast upon the end of the plate opposite the tongue. 0 is the buckle-loop,whieh prevents the strap from slipping off the tongue. The partsA B O D are all cast together, forming a single piece of metal, and may be of any size or style desired.

Heretofore buckles used for this purpose have been of little practical value, as, by reason of their necessary position when the collar is upon the horse, the collar-strap cannot be easily pulled upward and backward upon it self, as heretofore required, nor can the collar be drawn together, as required for unfastening the strap from such buckles, and therefore tongue in one piece by means of the plate B the'same may be fastened upon the leather more readily and securely than heretofore, either by means of rivets passing through the plate B or by sewing a strap over the plate and thereby .concealing it.

Buckles similar to mine have been before used.

My improvement lies in the construction of such buckles; and it consists, mainly, in placing the stifi' tongue near one end of the plate and just far enough from the loop opposite to which it stands to permit the strap to pass under the loop and over the end of the tongue, which is curved rearwardly toward the center of the plate, instead of employing a straight vertical tongue and locating it at the center of the plate, as heretofore.

I am also aware that buckles provided with stiff tongues have been heretofore used, and I do not claim, broadly, such; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure BENJAMIN J. HARTMAN.

Witnesses:

M. O. RoUcH, H. B. SWARTZ. 

